At first glance the piece above looks like a colourful mural but it is in fact a large painted carving of lions rampant on either side of the emblem of the Shankill Protestant Boys flute band, named for the Shankill Boys of the original Ulster Volunteers and the Ulster Special Service Force unit within it which was designed to be a unit of “first responders”, ready to react at short notice to action by republicans or British forces anywhere in northern Ireland (historyireland).
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